Local Economic Development and the Performance of Municipal People’s Congress Deputies in China: an Explanation for Regional Variation

Chen, Chuanmin

doi:10.1007/s11366-019-09630-1

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“…Zuo, Zhang, and Pan (2020) also indicated that provincial deputies who came from economically less-developed provinces were more inclined to submit proposals about local interests. However, Chen Chuanmin (2020) found that MPC deputies in richer regions usually performed more actively in putting forth proposals. Additionally, Sun Ying (2011) claimed that the increase in social stratification, the rise of emerging social classes, and the awakening of civic awareness in China boosted the activity and responsiveness of deputies.…”

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Workplace-Based Connection: Interest Articulation of Deputies in China’s Municipal People’s Congresses

Chen

Huang

2022

Modern China

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Existing studies have demonstrated that China’s people’s congresses are co-optative and constituency-based representative institutions where regime outsiders’ interests and regional interests are articulated. Drawing on data of the municipal people’s congresses in Shenzhen and Kunming, this article shows that the congresses are also “workplace-based” representative institutions, that is, institutions through which deputies express the interests of their work organizations. Different from the conventional view that deputies’ workplaces make them less active in performing in the congresses, this article first shows that a “workplace-based connection” exists in people’s congresses and thus deputies are driven by incentives from their workplaces to articulate the latter’s interests. Furthermore, municipal deputies whose work organizations depend more on municipal units (i.e., municipal party-state organs) or have less influence on municipal policy making usually put forward more proposals about workplace-based interests. These findings indicate that people’s congresses can be channels utilized by both state and nonstate sectors to articulate organizational interests.

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Workplace-Based Connection: Interest Articulation of Deputies in China’s Municipal People’s Congresses

Chen

Huang

2022

Modern China

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“…The party selectively mobilizes votes for preferred candidates while strategically manipulating electoral rules (Wang, 2017), yet local congresses supervise governments, the courts, and the procuracies more actively than the NPC (Cho, 2008; Xia, 2007). The performance of local congressional legislators and the operation of local congresses exhibit considerable regional variation (Chen, 2020). In sum, the power constraints of local legislatures may be heterogeneous across space and time as well as conditional on their composition.…”

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Power concentration and bottom‐up information flow: Evidence from Chinese municipal congresses

Yang

2023

Governance

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Power concentration may impede bottom‐up information flow. This article argues that strong ruling party control may facilitate the power concentration of ruling elites, which breeds reticence and impedes bottom‐up information flow. Using Chinese municipal congresses as a case, I establish that strong ruling party control significantly reduces the number of policy proposals, suggestions, and criticisms from legislators. The reduction effect of ruling party control on upward information is more salient when party leaders are expected to gain power in the future. Further analysis rules out alternative mechanisms: leadership style, composition of legislators, and local grievance.

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Policy Innovation of Local Officials in China: the Administrative Choice

Kong

2021

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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Local Economic Development and the Performance of Municipal People’s Congress Deputies in China: an Explanation for Regional Variation

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

Workplace-Based Connection: Interest Articulation of Deputies in China’s Municipal People’s Congresses

Workplace-Based Connection: Interest Articulation of Deputies in China’s Municipal People’s Congresses

Power concentration and bottom‐up information flow: Evidence from Chinese municipal congresses

Policy Innovation of Local Officials in China: the Administrative Choice

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